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This doesn’t apply to folks who want contacts for what’s in their profile, but: sometimes you’d like employers to know what relevant adjacent skills you have, without recruiters hitting them as search terms.

For that purpose, I masked all of my software terms like “java” from my EE profile with homoglyphs: humans can read them, but they don’t match search terms.

I used this site: http://www.irongeek.com/homoglyph-attack-generator.php?decod...

This is an example: ѕoftwаrе looks like “software” to humans, but I’ve pulled from Cyrillic characters, so the ascii codes don’t match.

I cut down my spam by about 80% instantly. (One weird trick!)